Draft-equalizer



mo Model.)

J. H.1NGERSOLL.

DRAFT EQUALIZER. No. 332,805. PatentedDeo. 22, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. INGERSOLL, OF EDGEWOOD, IOWA.

DRAFT-EQUALIZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,805, dated December 22. 1885.

Application filed August 29, 1885. Serial No. 175,677. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. INGERSOLL; of Edgewood, county of Clayton, Iowa, have invented a Draft-Equalizer for Harvesters, of

5 which the following'is a specification.

The drawing is a perspective view, in which A represents the harvester-pole, which has a cutting apparatus on the right side thereof, and on the same side a pivoted bar, 0. On the opposite side and farther to the front is a pivoted bar,'B, secured by bolt b to the pole. On this bar the evener and the clevis d are bolted at b or 11*, while on the bar is pivoted, at 0, c, or 0", the clevis d, which is connected by a diagonal eye-rod, D, with the clevis d. The rod E is held to bar 0 by the bolt which holds clevis d, and its forward end is made fast to poleA in front of the-bar B. I use the rod E to brace the pole against its tendency to press laterally toward the grain or mechanism sideoftheharvester. Byadjustingtheclevises and their bolts to the holes 12 b c c 0 the obliquity of the rod D may be varied.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

The brace-rod E, combined with the pivoted bars B 0, arranged on opposite sides of the tongue A and connected by a diagonal rod D, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN H. INGERSOLL.

Witnesses:

I. M. INGERSOLL, G. W. HOLLENBEOK. 

